Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on December 17, 2002 02:12 AM
I suppose distributed computing toolkits have become commodities (consider the choice of open source systems), and it's therefore becoming increasingly hard to charge huge sums for such software. Consequently, I'd expect companies like Sun to be making use of commodity software to provide more valuable products and services - such as those which just weren't popular or mainstream enough before because the infrastructure wasn't there.
Even companies like Microsoft have accepted that certain products become commodities after a while, although they notoriously exploited this effect with Internet Explorer (vs. Netscape Navigator) for "anticompetitive" purposes. Sun is now trying to attack Microsoft's revenue in a similar fashion with StarOffice, and you might well wonder what Sun's revenue figures are like there, too.
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Re:Actual revenue would be interresting to know.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on December 17, 2002 02:12 AMEven companies like Microsoft have accepted that certain products become commodities after a while, although they notoriously exploited this effect with Internet Explorer (vs. Netscape Navigator) for "anticompetitive" purposes. Sun is now trying to attack Microsoft's revenue in a similar fashion with StarOffice, and you might well wonder what Sun's revenue figures are like there, too.
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